April 27

100 Years ago – 1925

C.W. Holt, proprietor of a store by that same name, was in New York shopping for his Summer Line of goods.

75 years ago – 1950

Local houses open for the Garden Club of Virginia’s house and garden tours were those of Mr. and Mrs. J. Clyde Hooker, 920 Mulberry Road; Mr. and Mrs. G. Louis Jones, 906 Mulberry Road; Mr. and Mrs. H. Grady Moore; Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Hartford of Lynwood on duPont Road; and Mr. and Mrs. Hannibal Joyce, five and a half miles from City limits on U.S. 58, turning left at Mountain View Filling Stations. Those whose gardens only were on tour were Judge and Mrs. K.C. Whittle of 204 Starling Ave., Mrs. and Mrs. R.M. Simmons of 209 Starling Ave. and Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Covington, Beaver Creek Plantation.

50 years ago – 1975

The largest ever crowd up to 1975 was at the Martinsville Speedway for a race – 34,000 people. Richard Petty won, making it his 14th win in Martinsville.

Carver High School Band Boosters, with the cooperation of Martinsville Speedway owner Clay Campbell, made money by picking up aluminum cans after NASCAR races and taking them to be recycled. They’d come up with as much as half a bus load of cans.

25 years ago - 2000

H.L. Altice caught a 48-pound, 10-ounce striped bass in Smith Mountain Lake. He estimated that the fish was 14 years old and thought it to be the second largest ever caught in Virginia. His catch was within two weeks of seeing his buddies catch large bass – Jerry Oakes, 29 pounds, and Gary Kendrick, 18 ½ pounds, both caught also at Smith Mountain Lake. Jerry and Gary lived in Mountain Valley.

— Information from museum records and the Henry Bulletin and the Martinsville Bulletin.